Pokemon go responsible for future healthcare crisis!

Oh and OP the more healthy people are the more they work pay tax etc. It is the system that has broken because most have paid more than enough in and
somehow the pot is empty.
We will have old people riots when I'm old.

I hope you're in the same age range as me. I think it would be awesome to participate in old people riots. Old women knocking Lyft cars out of the
sky with their handbags, old men bashing in holo-projectors with their canes.

Hey it is in about 25/35 years we will all be like the six million dollar man all cybered up.
But we do have a massive problem with care at least in the UK so many adult/disabled homes just can not make money so the companies that own them are
just selling up over a 1000 closed in the past year here.
Including my company.(up for sale).
I see trouble with the amount of people who will look after folk because the amount of people who are leaving because of the work conditions are that
bad...
So many are realising they can work at aldi get paid more and not get bettered or abused for a living.
Sod it by that time I will rob a bank and If caught they can keep me fed and watered.

Hey it is in about 25/35 years we will all be like the six million dollar man all cybered up.
But we do have a massive problem with care at least in the UK so many adult/disabled homes just can not make money so the companies that own them are
just selling up over a 1000 closed in the past year here.
Including my company.(up for sale).
I see trouble with the amount of people who will look after folk because the amount of people who are leaving because of the work conditions are that
bad...
So many are realising they can work at aldi get paid more and not get bettered or abused for a living.
Sod it by that time I will rob a bank and If caught they can keep me fed and watered.

Our economy is already stresses by supporting all the dying but not dead baby boomers... I imagine complete economic collapse when the "Nerd
phenomenon" reaches critical mass. This may be a clever ploy by the Japanese to get revenge for WW2.

Possible, maybe, but you still have to explain the vast numbers of non-asian gamer makers. It may work for things like Sega Genesis and Nintendo, but
still a lot of non-asians developing those games.

It's possible China and Russia and other unstated enemies of the western powers do use these things--including drugs--to weaken youth. But it's just a
speculation. There might be cheese in the moon too.

The gist of what you're saying in this thread is gamers deserve to die early because they're worthless freeloaders. While this is true for some, many
gamers are in fact responsible and fully employed. Being fully employed, they're contributing meaningfully to our tax base.

Let's start with the elephant in the room, which is demographics. Americans over 65 are currently
around 14 percent of the population, and are projected to hit 20 percent in 2050. But the over-65 crowd in Japan is 26 percent of its population right
now, and is projected to hit 40 percent by 2050. In fact, the number of Japanese between age 15 and 64 has been shrinking in absolute terms ever since
it peaked in the mid-1990s.

...They're bleeding off huge amounts of wealth production to care for an elderly population that isn't in
the labor force itself. And while that helps aggregate demand, and keeps Japan near the peak of its potential productive capacity, it can't really
enlarge that productive capacity by bringing workers back into the economy. In some ways, Japan is actually running its economy pretty hot, and yet
both its inflation rate and the projected growth rate of its GDP are both basically nil. Which is just nuts.

Lastly, a large portion of healthcare costs are in the last years of life. For some people, it's in the last weeks. By changing how we provide end of
life care, it alone would help a great deal to keep costs down. Another enormous cost are chronic conditions, but those're muddier because it's one
thing to make a cost-decision when someone only has days to live and quite another when they might still live another 50 years--especially if they're
children.

originally posted by: subject x
a reply to: AshFan
Adding healthy time does not a crisis make.

The last 41.4 days of your life... healthy?

Here is the list of the top killers. 2 could be argued to be "healthy till dead" unless you count depression and despair as not being "healthy" then
its only 1. The last 41.4 days are not going to be sunshine.

People shouldn't be healthy, at least that's what the OP seems to imply. I actually kind of agree. If people die at like 50 they can't enjoy
retirement, they'll lower social security and health costs and thus the government(s) will have even more money to spend in wars and on their own
buttocks.

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.